Employability and Technical Skill Required to Establish a Small Scale Automobile Workshop

Abstract

The study focused on identifying the employability and technical skills needed to establish small-scale automobile workshop in Nsukka Urban of Enugu State.Five purposes of the study were stated to guide the study.  Five research questions were stated and answered in line with the purpose of the study. The population for the study is 1,500 registered automobile mechanic in the study area. Simple random sampling technique was employed to select 150 automobile mechanics and was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire  developed from literature review .The Questionnaire was administered on 150 automobile mechanics in the Nsukka Mechanic Village, and was retrieved and analyzed using frequency distribution, percentage and  mean. The study revealed among others that to establish and to  progress in automobile business, employability skills, technical skills, managerial skills, basic tools, equipment and facilities as well as finance are of great importance to the prospecting auto mechanic. Recommendations were given based on the findings from the study.

Keywords: Employability, Technical skills, Automobile Workshop, Auto mechanics